**Manchester United are confident their new chief executive Omar Berrada will not be implicated in Manchester City’s legal battle** with the Premier League over allegations of financial irregularities.
Berrada joined United in July after leaving City, where he spent 13 years in roles including chief operating officer and group commercial director and, most recently, chief football operations officer.
**The 46-year-old was the only witness to represent City at Benjamin Mendy’s employment tribunal in Manchester this week.**
**Berrada’s presence raised concerns that the United chief executive and other former City staff who have been recruited by the Old Trafford club** since Ineos became co-owners in February could become embroiled in a separate hearing relating to the Premier League’s 115 charges against City.
That independent hearing began last month with a verdict expected in the new year. At the same time, City and the Premier League have been involved in a separate legal dispute over associated party transactions.
Although there is no suggestion whatsoever of any wrongdoing by Berrada and United are confident there will be no fall-out for the club, the chief executive – who originally joined City in September 2011 – served as the club’s director of partnership sales for 17 months until January 2015. He was then group commercial director for almost two years.
City have been accused of a series of breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules between 2009 and 2018 and are alleged to have inflated some sponsorship income. They deny any wrongdoing.
**Berrada aside, United appointed Jason Wilcox as technical director in April. T**he former Blackburn Rovers winger – who joined United from Southampton – was previously City’s academy director. As with Berrada, there is no suggestion at all of any wrongdoing on Wilcox’s part.
The Premier League claim City breached rules requiring the club to provide “accurate financial information that gives a true and fair view of the club’s financial position”. This information covered club revenue, which includes sponsorship income and operating costs. The league has also accused City of not co-operating with its investigations.
City, who have refuted all charges, say their case is supported by a “comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence”.
SOERERY on
Would be weird to hire him otherwise
DaveShadow on
The fun thing would be is if it WAS bad enough to burn someone like him, it probably be the flames of City burnin to a crisp that causes those burns.
In which case….awesome.
Dramatic-Avocado4687 on
Man City probably won’t be burned by the case themselves. Let’s be honest.
Tomero on
He was there for 13 years as a member of the upper staff and won’t be implicated/called as witness etc at all? Doubt.
sugar_kane1984 on
This crossed my mind as soon as we hired him… after all every time we’ve “beaten” city to a player it’s been a disaster so would make sense if the same applied with a CEO too
Strong “…this is fine” vibes to all the briefings on this at the moment
Poop_Scissors on
The former commercial director and COO of City won’t be burned? Well they must be innocent then because there’s no way he wasn’t involved.
Eleven918 on
Even if he did know some things, why would he volunteer that information to the people at MUFC doing the vetting?
He was there for more than a decade and held multiple top level positions in the heirarchy. City will likely get away with it and Berrada will not have any trouble but I don’t buy that he didn’t know what was going on.
He was the partnership director and the group commercial director.
SirPightymenis on
Obviously since they only get another slap on thr wrist
AnakinAni on
Are City even getting burned ? It looks more like they are getting away with it 🙁
Informal-Year6961 on
I wouldn’t mind him being a sacrificial lamb if it meant harsh punishment on City, inshallah of course
Outcastscc on
well this seems like an odd thing to brief out with everything else going on over the last few weeks.
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**Manchester United are confident their new chief executive Omar Berrada will not be implicated in Manchester City’s legal battle** with the Premier League over allegations of financial irregularities.
Berrada joined United in July after leaving City, where he spent 13 years in roles including chief operating officer and group commercial director and, most recently, chief football operations officer.
**The 46-year-old was the only witness to represent City at Benjamin Mendy’s employment tribunal in Manchester this week.**
**Berrada’s presence raised concerns that the United chief executive and other former City staff who have been recruited by the Old Trafford club** since Ineos became co-owners in February could become embroiled in a separate hearing relating to the Premier League’s 115 charges against City.
That independent hearing began last month with a verdict expected in the new year. At the same time, City and the Premier League have been involved in a separate legal dispute over associated party transactions.
Although there is no suggestion whatsoever of any wrongdoing by Berrada and United are confident there will be no fall-out for the club, the chief executive – who originally joined City in September 2011 – served as the club’s director of partnership sales for 17 months until January 2015. He was then group commercial director for almost two years.
City have been accused of a series of breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules between 2009 and 2018 and are alleged to have inflated some sponsorship income. They deny any wrongdoing.
**Berrada aside, United appointed Jason Wilcox as technical director in April. T**he former Blackburn Rovers winger – who joined United from Southampton – was previously City’s academy director. As with Berrada, there is no suggestion at all of any wrongdoing on Wilcox’s part.
The Premier League claim City breached rules requiring the club to provide “accurate financial information that gives a true and fair view of the club’s financial position”. This information covered club revenue, which includes sponsorship income and operating costs. The league has also accused City of not co-operating with its investigations.
City, who have refuted all charges, say their case is supported by a “comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence”.
Would be weird to hire him otherwise
The fun thing would be is if it WAS bad enough to burn someone like him, it probably be the flames of City burnin to a crisp that causes those burns.
In which case….awesome.
Man City probably won’t be burned by the case themselves. Let’s be honest.
He was there for 13 years as a member of the upper staff and won’t be implicated/called as witness etc at all? Doubt.
This crossed my mind as soon as we hired him… after all every time we’ve “beaten” city to a player it’s been a disaster so would make sense if the same applied with a CEO too
Strong “…this is fine” vibes to all the briefings on this at the moment
The former commercial director and COO of City won’t be burned? Well they must be innocent then because there’s no way he wasn’t involved.
Even if he did know some things, why would he volunteer that information to the people at MUFC doing the vetting?
He was there for more than a decade and held multiple top level positions in the heirarchy. City will likely get away with it and Berrada will not have any trouble but I don’t buy that he didn’t know what was going on.
He was the partnership director and the group commercial director.
Obviously since they only get another slap on thr wrist
Are City even getting burned ? It looks more like they are getting away with it 🙁
I wouldn’t mind him being a sacrificial lamb if it meant harsh punishment on City, inshallah of course
well this seems like an odd thing to brief out with everything else going on over the last few weeks.
are they concerned something is coming out?
